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Hortin, John A. – Performance and Instruction, 1983
Discusses the roles of visual thinking, visual rehearsal, and introspection in educational technology, and suggests that instructional designers should externalize their internal representations and involve the internal and external representations of content specialists and learners in the instructional design. Fifteen references are listed. (MBR)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Instructional Design, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods

Hortin, John A.; Baily, Gerald D. – Reading Improvement, 1983
Discusses the value of making students visually literate. Stresses the technique of visual rehearsal and offers suggestions for incorporating visual rehearsal activities into the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Visual Learning
Hortin, John A. – 1980
It is proposed that visual literacy be defined as the ability to understand (read) and use (write) images and to think and learn in terms of images. This definition includes three basic principles: (1) visuals are a language and thus analogous to verbal language; (2) a visually literate person should be able to understand (read) images and use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Ideography, Imagery